Another Career
Tuesday, May 31st, 2005After my dive a few days ago, I spent the last couple of days just finding out what’s there on the surface level of the ocean in Australia. Namely, I had a short yet glamorous surfing career. At the peak of my career I even starting to stand on my surfboard for at least 3, maybe even 4 seconds, before falling into the water. It was hard to get there, though. I had to repeat the first (and only) surfing lesson twice (they gave me the second time free!) and at some point the guide took me aside to show me some special tricks to the not-so-balanced.
Wave surfing is really hard. The main thing that attracts people to it, I believe, is the speed you can develop on a surfboard. It really is fast, and you are very close to the water level, which adds a lot to the experience. Nonetheless, after these two days I decided that my preferable marine sports remains diving. Not swimming and not surfing. Who knows - I still have to try cayaking, and probably there are some other things I will try, later in my travel.
Surfers Paradise is an ingenious name to a city. It is a small but very touristic city (huge hotels, arcades, night clubs, the entire business) that serves as the unofficial capital of the Gold-Coast. Queensland is divided into coasts. From Byron-Bay to Brisbane is the Gold Coast, later comes the Sunshine Coast, and so forth - Pretty much like in Spain. Another thing common to Australia and Spain is the tendency to take everything easy - not lazyness or an urge to postpone everything to tommorow, but just a feeling that nothing is urgent, which is very common in Australia and is most striking to an Israeli traveler like me.
Tommorow I will move on. The next destination is probably Brisbane, Queensland’s capital. After that, I will go to Noosa and to Harvey Bay.
